For the last few months, every time I've had a dist that needed File::ShareDir to do its dirty work, I've used various tricks to make it work.
- Simply not test it:
Sad as this may seem, this is pretty much the primary approach because it was too confusing - Invest a bit of code into overriding sharedir behaviour
This usually involved having some coderef or lazy-loaded attribute that was normally populated by File::ShareDir, instead provided during test via hard-coding it.
Enter Test::File::ShareDir
I uploaded Test::File::ShareDir this morning to CPAN, which lets you do this:
use Test::More;
use FindBin;
use Test::File::ShareDir
-root => "$FindBin::Bin/../",
-share => {
-module => { 'My::Module' => 'share/MyModule' }
};
This configuration would be sufficient to use in a test in
t/ for a distribution shipping
My::Module along with its corresponding shared directory
share/MyModule.
If you were shipping this dist with Dist::Zilla, you'd have something like this in dist.ini
[ModuleShareDirs]
My::Module = share/MyModule
I plan to add support for 'package' style ShareDir support, but for now, module share dirs are sufficient.
Enjoy =).
